Senior Product Designer

Role overview

As a Senior Product Designer at Ashby, you’ll be a versatile designer who can also operate like a product partner, consultant, and design systems contributor. The team uses a principled approach to design: you’ll do deep product design when needed, but also know when design work should be minimal and engineers can reuse existing components and follow guidance.

What you’ll work on

• Help rethink how modern software is designed and contribute to the product experience.
• Work within a product team where design and product ownership are closely integrated (fuzzy role boundaries).
• Contribute to design challenges end-to-end, including providing project updates and managing resources when appropriate.
• Support and/or lead design system management as part of enabling the whole product team to make better design decisions.

How the team works

• Product teams typically include a PM, a designer, and ~4–5 engineers.
• You may collaborate in a way that blends PM, design, and consulting responsibilities depending on the project.
• The culture is high-autonomy, IC-focused, and emphasizes an almost no-meeting cadence.

Requirements / qualifications

• “Design enough” depth to understand how much design is truly needed per project and when to guide vs. build.
• Ability to collaborate with engineers and influence product decisions beyond traditional design deliverables.
• Comfort owning projects from beginning to end when the situation calls for it.

Nice to haves

• Experience supporting or managing a design system.
• Experience working in fast-growing startups and environments with fuzzy functional boundaries.